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Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy
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This is true. A few years ago, before I moved down to southern CA, I was in northern CA. One day, at about 7:30 am, I heard this loud bang. I thought it didn't really sound like a car accident, so walked outside to see what the heck that was. My next door neighbor was outside, visibly freaked out, so I walked towards the street to get a better look. Just from my front lawn, I could see that the street was blocked off, right where we lived, by multiple police cars, undercover and marked.
I walked down the sidewalk towards the street, and then looked to the left. There was a SWAT van sitting outside of a house right across the street from us. Personally, my observations over time of this house was that I had no idea who actually lived there. There were always multiple people, far too many to live in a single family home, and I noticed that the occupants kept changing - they were never the same people. I'd see one large group, and then a few months later, it would be an entirely different group. None of them were European. At one point, there were actually kids there, because I remember they rented one of those stupid bouncy things and planted it in the front yard - the yard that was nothing more than dried up foxtails and dirt. It wasn't a huge one, but it was big enough that you couldn't miss it. Eventually, I didn't see kids there anymore.
Anyway, I looked down the street towards the left, and realized they had blocked the street down there, too. If I wanted to leave to go somewhere, I would not have been able to. So, I stood there and watched as they marched people out, one by one, with their hands on their heads. They then walked them down the sidewalk towards where I and my neighbor were standing, opposite side of the street though, and sat them down on the curb next to all the police cars that were blocking the street right outside my apartment.
I honestly thought, for a moment, that it was an illegal alien sting, but then I remembered, 'Oh, right, I live in CA, nevermind." So I wasn't sure what was going on right then and there.
They ended up having about 11-13 people lined up on the curb, sitting down, handcuffed, looking in our direction. I whipped out my phone and recorded it all.
Right when I thought it was over, and I had calmed my neighbor down, we heard another loud bang, and then saw smoke. Seems as if one person in the house was being stubborn about coming out. After that second loud bang and the smoke, he came out, too, with his hands on his head. This was about 30 minutes of 'fun' right outside my place.
At that point, I went inside and went about my day. (I worked from home, so, no skipping work because I couldn't get out, darn it.)
Several days later, I looked up certain words in search and found the story. I was...not in shock, but couln't believe what was going on there.
See, from the street, you just see a house, a small dead front yard, a large tree, and several cars - mainly pick up trucks. You can't see the back, and it turns out, their 'backyard' was rather large. Extremely large. It was so large, they had 6 different buildings back there, all growing marijuana. I can't remember the # of plants that were seized, but it was a crazy amount.
Which reminds me, once they got the last die hard out, I noticed a power company vehicle on the scene. The article didn't say it was the power company that called it in, but said that the police were tipped off about this house, and that was the day they raided it. I believe, because that power company vehicle was there, perhaps the use of electricity put up a huge red flag, especially because CA likes to tell you not to use much electricity, and you get threatened with brown outs if 'everyone doesn't do their part'.
So, this 'taking over' of northern CA is not new. At least not new in the last year or 2. It has been going on. The idea that making marijuana legal would prevent this, turned out not to be true. I'm almost positive that I shared this story on here in the past, because I mentioned that very sentence, and naturally, was argued with by pot smokers who are too brain wasted to see reality. Making it legal did not stop any crimes. It wasn't just about the 'government doesn't like it when they are undercut by others', it still causes other crimes.
Another liberal pipe dream that didn't pan out, because they do not understand people, or they do, and think no one else does. Either way, they were wrong, yet again. There's more crime now, not less.
:: golf clap :: Well done, lefties.
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